In the past, I’ve blogged about www.spokentext.net as a way to convert digital text to digital audio. Of course, because it is a website, you can access it from any computer with access, giving you freedom from having to be at YOUR computer that has your text to audio software installed. This week, I found a similar site that takes this concept one step further!
YAKiToMe: Not only is this site another FREE web based text to audio file converter, but it takes the concept to the next level by including podcasts and by allowing you to podcast your text to audio conversions to your students! How cool is that? Your students can actually subscribe to a podcast that you create with text to audio conversions and/or you can subscribe to your own T to A conversions podcast for things that you don’t have time to read, but can maybe listen to in the car or on the treadmill! There are also other podcasts available. You can alter pronunciations in your settings, you can alter voices that include some AT&T voices, you can change the speed of reading and choose to output as either a WAV or MP3. It is available in many different languages, listen to the same converted file using different voices and more! It is technically still in Beta I believe, but so far I’m very impressed! www.yakitome.com
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